The British version of PubMed Central has gone live and is now freely available. UK PubMed Central is a mirror and sister site to PubMed Central founded and run by the US National Institutes of Health.
Users of UK PubMed Central can access full-text peer reviewed content on the site.
UK PubMed Central has been in the making for a year and a half, the service is funded by Arthritis Research Campaign, The Biotechnology and biological Sciences Research Council, The British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, The Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Executive Health Department, the Department of Health, JISC, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
Technical support for the service is delivered by the British Library, University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics Institute.
UK PubMed Central hosts 620,000 full text articles.
On the subject of PubMed, I'm wondering where Tracey Cladwell got her facts from for the recent article entitled 'Elsevier duo say the future is open'. To kick off the slander neither of these fellows ever reached the status of 'senior publisher' - Chris Leonard was a publishing editor while Brian Vickery managed a web portal. The reasons for leaving Elsevier also appear to have become somewhat twisted. Chris left Elsevier a year ago to work for a music software company while I believe Brian was made redundant following closure of the portal.
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